What are the 99+ Steps for the 333 process

The process for a Building Partnership Capacity (BPC) proposal case through the 333 authority includes 99 steps at a minimum. I’m sure I’ve missed some steps here and feel free to highlight them in the comments section (Note: I’ve purposefully left out the Implementing Agency/MILDEP steps which the OSC has a minimal role in their overall process). DISCS teaches you the FMS system in broad/major steps (http://www.discs.dsca.mil/documents/greenbook/05_Chapter.pdf). What it doesn’t go into are all the “ankle biter” tasks that are inclusive and highly important for BPC pseudo-FMS (333) cases. For this blog, I have taken a recent brief (one slide) and highly expanded it to drill down into the weeds of the things an OSC should track for each of their proposals. I’m not a checklist kind of person, yet I’ve created a checklist below. OSC work is inherently sequential. It is what it is – your job is to know, prepare for, and manage the “hoops” of OSC work.

Most of this information is in the SAMR and Green Book – with extensive explanations. I’ve tried to simplify the process here. I’ve also written this blog to highlight how complex our systems are – one major fail in these steps is major fail overall.